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Early Life Bassui Tokushō was born in Nakamura, a district in Sagami Province, in present-day Kanagawa Prefecture, in 1327. His
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The Beginning of the Journey Hakuin Ekaku was born in 1686 into a rural family in Japan. From an early
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Bodhidharma was the twenty-eighth successor in the lineage of the Buddha and the first patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism. In
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Linji Yixuan did not leave behind a neatly constructed philosophy, arranged like a garden of stones. He left a crack.
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